Floating Point Systems, Inc. (FPS), was a Beaverton, Oregon vendor of attached array processors and minisupercomputers. The company was founded in 1970...

1/3 = 0.3333… is not a floating-point number in base ten with any finite number of digits. In practice, most floating-point systems use base two, though...

A floating-point unit (FPU), numeric processing unit (NPU), colloquially math coprocessor, is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry...

Double-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP64 or float64) is a floating-point number format, usually occupying 64 bits in computer memory;...

Floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance in computing, useful in fields of scientific computations...

refer to: Floating Point, a jazz music album by John McLaughlin Floating Points, a British electronic music DJ and producer Floating Point Systems, an Oregon-based...

interpreters—IP-2 (floating-point, 8 decimal digits), IP-3 (floating-point, 6 decimal digits), IP-4 (complex numbers, 8 decimal digits), IP-5 (floating-point, 12 decimal...

Hexadecimal floating point (now called HFP by IBM) is a format for encoding floating-point numbers first introduced on the IBM System/360 computers, and...

numeric values by using a floating radix point. A floating-point variable can represent a wider range of numbers than a fixed-point variable of the same bit...

In computing, tapered floating point (TFP) is a format similar to floating point, but with variable-sized entries for the significand and exponent instead...

computing, half precision (sometimes called FP16 or float16) is a binary floating-point computer number format that occupies 16 bits (two bytes in modern computers)...

The IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754) is a technical standard for floating-point arithmetic originally established in 1985 by the...

Floating-point error mitigation is the minimization of errors caused by the fact that real numbers cannot, in general, be accurately represented in a fixed...

In computing, quadruple precision (or quad precision) is a binary floating-point–based computer number format that occupies 16 bytes (128 bits) with precision...

Decimal floating-point (DFP) arithmetic refers to both a representation and operations on decimal floating-point numbers. Working directly with decimal...

emitter-coupled logic technology. The company was founded in 1983 by former Floating Point Systems, Intel, and Tektronix engineers. The company, which occupied a 46...

Block floating point (BFP) is a method used to provide an arithmetic approaching floating point while using a fixed-point processor. BFP assigns a group...

IEEE binary floating-point formats, but they do exist in some other formats, including the IEEE decimal floating-point formats. Some systems handle subnormal...

Retrieved 18 August 2019. [...] Systems such as the [Digital Field System] DFS IV and DFS V were quaternary floating-point systems and used gain steps of 12 dB...

to perform IEEE 754 floating-point operations and increased the number of floating-point registers from 4 to 16. Enterprise Systems Architecture is essentially...

The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, also known as the 520 Bridge and officially the Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge, is a floating bridge that carries...

a floating-point number) which is undefined as a number, such as the result of 0/0. Systematic use of NaNs was introduced by the IEEE 754 floating-point...

The term arithmetic underflow (also floating-point underflow, or just underflow) is a condition in a computer program where the result of a calculation...

Graphics, Planar Systems, Floating Point Systems, Cascade Microtech, Merix Corporation, Anthro Corporation and Northwest Instrument Systems (NWIS) – later...

Hexadecimal floating point may refer to: IBM hexadecimal floating point in the IBM System 360 and 370 series of computers and others since 1964 Hexadecimal...

Extended precision refers to floating-point number formats that provide greater precision than the basic floating-point formats. Extended-precision formats...

(left) part of a number in scientific notation or related concepts in floating-point representation, consisting of its significant digits. For negative numbers...

peripheral equipment needed and used for full or mostly full operation. Such systems may constitute personal computers (including desktop computers, portable...

The Motorola 68881 and Motorola 68882 are floating-point units (FPUs) used in some computer systems in conjunction with Motorola's 32-bit 68020 or 68030...

In computing, decimal128 is a decimal floating-point number format that occupies 128 bits in memory. Formally introduced in IEEE 754-2008, it is intended...